The Koman languages are a small, close-knit family spoken along the Ethiopia-Sudan border by about 50,000 people, comprising six recognized languages: Uduk, Kwama, Komo, Opuuo, Dana and the extinct Gule. They are conventionally classified within Nilo-Saharan, though many scholars treat Koman as independent for lack of firm evidence, and recent research suggests it may be closest to Gumuz within that phylum.
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RegionThe Koman languages are spoken along the Ethiopia-Sudan border. 1 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusKoman is conventionally classified as part of Nilo-Saharan, but because supporting evidence is scarce many scholars treat it as an independent family; Proto-Koman itself has been reconstructed, by Lionel Bender in 1983 and again by Otero in 2019. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Koman Languages (Family Article)
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located along the Ethiopia-Sudan border
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with about 50,000 speakers
Classification section
Proto-Koman has been reconstructed by Lionel Bender (1983) and Otero (2019).
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